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Er, shall we skip the football today? Tonight’s pair of beers are Hive Mind Pollen Pale Ale from Wales, hazy and infused with 🐝 pollen. Low in alcohol but not taste, floral, fruity, not too bitter and almost a chewy texture. Last but not least is a more familiar autumn beer, Badger Cranborne Poacher. It promises wild fruits, liquorice, and chocolate malt. I think it delivers, on the sweeter side offering the palate damsons, blackberries and other bramble fruits, and liquorice bite from the slightly spicy hops. Stronger by far than the first offering at 5.7%.

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https://www.rasmusankersen.com/about/

Friend of mine from Swansea did a Postgrad at Pompey Uni and rented a house around the Goldsmith Ave area. Heard booing at the final whistle most weeks and said it reminded him of home.

Dyche only has a goatee and lacks luxuriant Lego-type hair. He’s a bit too old school for vaping and skinny jeans as well. Wouldn’t be on Rasmus’s black box therefore. Does have bags of actual top level football management expertise but that’s over-rated apparently.

Isn’t Paul Doswell at Sholing now and Kelvin at Eastleigh or am I confused? Adam is in a difficult spot and Martin has been rude to both him and Alfie. The club can just pull the shutters down. They don't do it to the national media of course. PS - your username is a great summary of what most of us think of Martin, Rasmus and SR 😉

Is there an option four - have Jones, Selles or Martin manage Saints, or cutting off our cocks with a rusty butter knife?

You’re right, I got the first two the wrong way around. Brighton was Boxing Day and Gavin’s nightmare in front of the cameras.

First game was Lincoln home and then Liverpool away IIRC

Commonality between the three SR clubs https://www.rasmusankersen.com/about/

You know me. Stamping on people’s dreams and all that 😉

Didn’t know Sky had adopted BBC Breakfast’s background 😉

But they need the £££ to do it. Needs a couple more major investors and buy the Danish duo of the partnership, or make them full-time employees of say Goztepe.

Good post although your username is rather optimistic this season 😉

We are on course for that anyway with 70% possession and 1 shot on target at what was the bottom club this morning. Try Fratton, they won today. Although you might want to invest in a robust nose peg because John Westwood smells appalling. Assuming he hasn’t got arrested for urinating on the side of one of the stands pre-match.

Have you ever managed staff, run a business or led a large department? The workplace isn’t much different to the football industry, people just use stronger language at the football.

If you can’t vent off after a club record defeat then there’s something wrong and Ralph said if he’d been a fan he’d have left the ground before half-time. He was astonished how many fans stayed. This is a strange hill you seem determined to die on.

Ralph after the two 9-0s. RH himself said it was remarkable. And no-one was saying anything vaguely against Ronald after the 0-3 v Everton first home game of the season, a bit of frustration with a lethargic display. A few murmurs after the bad run mid-season but very low level.

Adrian Viveash, who the new owner got rid of in the summer.

All of this is a fact, and has been obvious with SR for a while. Need a latter day John Williams as SFC CEO, have a strategic hook-up with an agent like Wolves had with Mendez next season until the scouting department is rebuilt top to bottom and ensure Rasmus’s nose is kept firmly out of any transfers. Hire a first team manager committed to the type of press then pass football which suits Saints and what the fans enjoy and recruit players accordingly with pace, power, maybe raw but the materials to improve. Even when a transfer looks a good deal on paper, the first team manager has right of veto. SR themselves need a couple more investors with Dragan to get the headroom up to 3-5Bn which is the minimum for a multi club model and dilute Rasmus and Henrik’s influence. A global figurehead like Patrick Vieira or Henry would make them be taken far more seriously in the industry. At the moment, all they’re doing is giving a horrific glimpse of what Pinnacle would’ve been like if Markus hadn’t bought us. Professionalise or sell up this season. Your choice Dragan. I wouldn’t invest in setting up a hotel chain as I don’t have a hospitality background, I’d start with a smaller hotel and hire very experienced in that industry around me first. They have never got Saints right at the core before taking on two more clubs with not much success so far either.

All the hallmarks of Russia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy93dp4zk3o

RoI football team very much in the Rugby Union team’s shadow

Going further north this week with Abbeydale’s Sheffield Stout. Made with six malts apparently, notes of dark chocolate with spicy hop notes in the background. And it tastes good - dark chocolate, equivalent to a very high cocoa content, getting the peppery notes off the hops with hints of fruit 🍋‍🟩 The can is a work of art, I’m reluctant to put it in the recycling. I think that’s Kinder Scout depicted at the top of the can.

What’s in it for Ukraine though? They can’t fight at the same level if Trump slows the funding package but Russia’s operations are now in part propped up by N Korea. And America doesn’t want that. Crimea and Donbas will go to Putin in any settlement next year, RUSI have predicted that for months. Although the latter Putin’s forces have smashed to shit, and Russia has no money for reparations anywhere with their economy in tatters. Trump has campaigned on not funding overseas wars so can’t fill the reparations gap either, but what he can do is NATO membership which would also be a positive stroke for Western Europe, who are concerned about Putin holding on for another 4 years for a crack at Latvia/Lithuania. Putin would hate that but he’s already in a corner and Xi won’t supply any more credit. He can claim a hollow win for liberating the Russian speaking lands.